Emerging economies are drawing increasing attention from investors and foreign businesses. However, doing business within emerging countries can be frustrating. As a case in point, in the largest South American economy ...

This study uses bibliometric analysis to understand the influence of authors and institutions in the Human Resources academic literature produced in Brazil throughout the 1990 s (1991 through 2000). The study mapped out, ...

This research intends to investigate the criteria used to evaluate scientific contributions in periodicals and conferences in the field of Business Administration in Brazil. The first part consists of an exploratory study ...

The theme of competitiveness has been subject of research in different academic realms, such as economy, strategy, operations management and organization studies. As expected, each of these disciplines deal with competitiveness ...

This research investigates empirically what happened to the Organization and Methods (O&M) function and career in Brazilian organizations since 1985. The study seeks to empirically verify whether or not, as a few authors ...

A recent debate has taken place in International Human Resource Management (IHRM) theory and practice between the so-called functionalists and the critical approaches. This paper reviews the literature on mainstream, ...

Organizational and task commitment are central drivers of firm performance as they affect employees' willingness to exert effort for the organization. This paper argues that supervisors who consistently use socio-emotional ...

The concept of organizational identity became a subject of interest within the academic milieu in the mid- 1980s. In this paper, we propose the construct of legacy identities, those persistent identities that, first, endure ...

Fernando Henrique Cardoso has been the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil since January 1, 1995. He was reelected in 1998 in the first elections round, with 53% of the vote. Prior to becoming a public figure, ...